[A NOTE-BOOK AND WORD-LIST]
INCLUDING
Contemporary References, Bibliography, Variorum Readings, Notes, &c., together with a Glossary of Words and Phrases now Archaic or Obsolete; the whole arranged in One Alphabet in Dictionary Form
[A FOREWORD TO NOTE-BOOK AND WORD-LIST]
Reference from text to Note-Book is copious, and as complete as may be; so also, conversely, from Note-Book to text. The following pages may, with almost absolute certainty, be consulted on any point that may occur in the course of reading; but more especially as regards
- Biographical and other Notes,
- Contemporary References to Author and Plays,
- Bibliography,
- Variorum Readings,
- Words and Phrases now obsolete or archaic.
The scheme of reference from Note-Book to text assumes the division, in the mind's eye, of each page into four horizontal sections; which, beginning at the top, are indicated in the Note-Book by the letters a, b, c, d following the page figure. In practice this will be found easy, and an enormous help to the eye over the usual reference to page alone in "fixing" the "catchword." Thus 126a = the first quarter of page 126; 40c = the third quarter of page 40; and so forth.
Abbreviations.